Office Race

It had a decent beginning, with all the timeless setups for clichéd couch humor, and with a solid cast, I was hopeful.

As soon as the Boss "loses his mind", the movie derails and then spins out in ALL directions.

None of the easy set-ups are played out with any kind of normalcy or believability. It takes each joke way over-the-top. IDK if there were multiple directors involved on this project or a high turn-over rate, or what, but THEY could not decide which direction to take this film: Farrelly Brother-esque slapstick-smart, Lorne Michel's campy style with copious SNL cameos, or avant-garde cinematic storytelling like Lebowski. Sadly, it captured none of these styles and lacked anything of its own to call special. Most importantly, it lacked humor.

Some likable characters could not save this waste of a budget.

Even the ending is flat. FLAT. In fact, the whole movie is just that: flat.

Love Erinn Hayes though!

This isn't designed to be a high-brow comedy. It's just a fun, stupid, silly movie. If you take life too seriously you won't be able to enjoy the movie. But if you can laugh at poop jokes and slapstick comedy it's worth checking out. It's probably never going to become a cult comedy hit like "Office Space" (which it seems might have been its goal), but if you're looking for something to escape from the constant negativity of social media and daily news this is a good one. It's like a combination of Dodgeball, a live action South Park episode, and Adam Sandler's Waterboy.. and if it had been released 20 years ago it would have been received much more positively. Give it a shot.

While not a bad movie, it had some mildly funny scenes but was mostly meh. Joel McHale played himself, as usual, with the same one dimensional narcissistic character we've all seen from him. I probably would not have chosen this movie had I seen the cast list.

Beck Bennett as the stat was okay as were the others. I particularly enjoyed Alyson Hannigan, Geoffrey Arend and Kelsey Grammer in their various roles. Kyle Bunbury's role was mostly drama with the occasional light humor and she was good.

For some background noise or just some light entertainment I recommend this movie. It probably won't wow you or cause even the mildest of belly laughs but it isn't bad.

Pat (Beck Bennett) is a slacker salesman at an internet finance startup. His former underling Spencer (Joel McHale) gets promoted ahead of him. They need to make a sale to marathon-obsessed Rita (Erinn Hayes). Pat ends up training with Rita's group for an upcoming race with the sale on the line.

SNL alum Beck Bennett does a lot of voice work. As the comedic lead, he needs to be appealing even with the slackerism. In fact, his slackership needs to be fun and enjoyable to the audience. It's meh. That infects the whole movie. It's all very meh. Joel McHale is doing his irreverent most. Mostly, I'm not in love with this lead.

If you're a runner-you'll be laughing and feeling the truth, absurdity, and emotional arc of Pat's (Beck Bennett) transformation of his journey from couch potato to dedicated marathon runner and rooting for him against his hilariously evil boss, Spencer (Joel McHale). McHale's building insanity against Beck's straight performance is a *chef's kiss*, and the make up artist should be compensated double-nay, triple-that transformed McHale from Ken-tacular to testicular.

A cosmic gumbo of over-the-top bits alongside insightful moments for runners, Office Race is a cult comedy in the making with an incredible cast of comedic main stays and newcomers.

If you're a runner's friend, family, or loved one-you'll just be laughing at them. 10/10.